I Like
Turtles.

The first meme ever recorded on a blockchain. Before Doge, before Wojak, even before Solana. Internet culture, permanently written into Bitcoin history.

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Exhibit A

The chain remembers.

Transaction output #1 contains a hexadecimal payload. Decode the bytes as ASCII and the message resolves to the immortal phrase: “I LIKE TURTLES”.

Transaction ID

78eb16507b3d3df615e3b474e853db4667f4b11954ec6d918b1ded0fca7ad25a

Blockstream Explorer output showing the scriptPubKey hexadecimal data for the historical transaction — Blockstream Explorer record On-chain

Exhibit B / Decode path

Hex in. Meme out.

/01

Locate

Find output #1 in the transaction record.

/02

Extract

Copy the embedded script hexadecimal bytes.

/03

Decode

Convert the hex payload into plain ASCII text.

Three-panel evidence collage showing hexadecimal conversion to I LIKE TURTLES and its connection to the Bitcoin transaction — The full verification trail: bytes → text → transaction

A permanent piece of internet culture

The internet forgets. Bitcoin doesn't.

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